Gluten-Free Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies
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These gluten-free triple chocolate chip cookies are the ultimate cookie for chocolate lovers! We start with a soft, chewy chocolate cookie base, then pack it full of THREE kinds of chocolate chips for amazing flavor.
The Perfect Cookie For A Chocolate Lover
You know I love a good gluten-free chocolate chip cookie recipe, but sometimes, you want to take the chocolate flavor up to the next level, and that’s where these TRIPLE chocolate chip cookies come in!
EASE: Simple ingredients, simple techniques, and no chilling required!
FLAVORS: CHOCOLATE! We start with a chocolate cookie base, then load it up with THREE kinds of chocolate chips for amazing flavor. You’ll also get subtle notes of vanilla, brown sugar & a tiny bit of salt for balance.
TOP TIPS: Use a kitchen scale to weigh your dry ingredients when possible. It makes a big difference in the texture and spread of your dough!
Happy baking! xo, Emily
Gather Your Ingredients
Ready to bake a batch? Let’s take a look at our ingredients list! Here’s what you’ll need for these fudgy, chewy triple chocolate cookies:
How To Make Gluten-Free Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies, Step By Step
As always, you can find the full recipe, with ingredient amounts, detailed instructions, and tips in the recipe card below.
- Preheat The Oven & Prep Your Pans. Start by preheating the oven to 350 degrees F. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Mix The Dry Ingredients. In a medium bowl, combine gluten-free flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Whisk until it’s well blended and set aside.
- Cream Butter & Sugars. In the bowl of a stand mixer (or a large mixing bowl), combine softened butter, brown sugar, and sugar. Cream with a paddle attachment or hand mixer 2-3 minutes, or until smooth, light, and fluffy.
- Add Eggs & Vanilla. Scrape down the edges of the bowl, and add eggs one at a time, beating to combine fully before adding the next one. Add vanilla extract and stir to combine.
- Slowly Add Dry Ingredients & Milk. Add about half of the dry ingredients a little at a time, and mix until almost fully combined. Add the milk and mix for a few seconds, then add the second half of the dry ingredients and mix until almost fully combined (just a little powder left).
- Mix In Chocolate Chips. Pour in 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips, 1/2 cup white chocolate chips, and 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (or milk chocolate chips) and mix until just combined. The dough will be a bit sticky, like thick brownie batter.
- Scoop & Bake. Use a large cookie scoop (3 Tablespoon) to scoop 6 cookie dough balls onto a baking sheet. (I like to roll them smooth in my palms first for the prettiest presentation.) Bake cookies 9-11 minutes, or until the edges are set and the centers look just underdone. (I bake mine 9.5 minutes)
- Shape & Cool. When the cookies are done baking, use a large round cookie cutter to gently coax them into perfect circles, if needed (this is just for looks!), fill in any gaps on the surface with some extra chocolate chips, and cool 2-3 minutes on the baking sheet before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. Repeat until all the cookies are baked, alternating between cookie sheets each batch so you don’t put cool dough on a hot sheet pan.
- Serve & Store. Enjoy cooled cookies right away and store leftover cookies in an airtight container at room temperature 2-3 days or freeze up to 2 months.
FAQ + Tricks For The Best Triple Chocolate Cookies
Metric Works Best! Using an inexpensive digital kitchen scale is THE most accurate way to measure your ingredients for these gluten-free cookies. If you don’t have one, make sure to use the scoop and level method to spoon flour INTO the measuring cups rather than measuring WITH the measuring cup (which packs too much flour into the cookie dough.)
Make Them Extra Pretty. For bakery-worthy cookies, I usually add a few extra chocolate chips on top of the cookies right after they come out of the oven. As for a perfectly round shape, follow my tips in the recipe card about coaxing the cookies into perfect circles with a cookie cutter when they come out of the oven.
Play Around! You can try even more combinations of chocolate chips here. Use a mix of dark chocolate chips, white chocolate chips and peanut butter chips, or use dark chocolate, white chocolate, and mint chips at the holidays! Or, use a mix of chocolate chips and chocolate chunks for a more rustic look!
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Gluten-Free Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups Gluten-Free Measure-For-Measure Flour, Weighed or Scooped and Leveled (270 grams)
- 1 cup Natural Unsweetened Cocoa Powder (NOT Dutch Processed) (96 grams)
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- ½ teaspoon Kosher Salt
- 1 cup Butter, Softened (223 grams/2 sticks)
- 1 cup Granulated Sugar (200 grams)
- 1 cup Light Brown Sugar (200 grams)
- 2 Large Eggs, room temperature
- 1 ½ teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- 2-3 Tablespoons Milk
- ½ cup Dark Chocolate Chips (3 oz/85 grams)
- ½ cup White Chocolate Chips (3 oz/85 grams)
- ½ cup Semisweet Chocolate Chips or Milk Chocolate Chips (3 oz/85 grams)
- ½ cup Extra chocolate chips, for decorating (I use 1 oz of each kind of chocolate chips for this)
Instructions
- Preheat The Oven & Prep Your Pans. Start by preheating the oven to 350 degrees F. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Mix The Dry Ingredients. In a medium bowl, combine gluten-free flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Whisk until it’s well blended and set aside.
- Cream Butter & Sugars. In the bowl of a stand mixer (or a large mixing bowl), combine softened butter, brown sugar, and sugar. Cream with a paddle attachment or hand mixer 2-3 minutes, or until smooth, light, and fluffy.
- Add Eggs & Vanilla. Scrape down the edges of the bowl, and add eggs one at a time, beating to combine fully before adding the next one. Add vanilla extract and stir to combine.
- Slowly Add Dry Ingredients & Milk. Add about half of the dry ingredients a little at a time, and mix until almost fully combined. Add the milk and mix for a few seconds, then add the second half of the dry ingredients and mix until almost fully combined (just a little powder left).
- Mix In Chocolate Chips. Pour in 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips, 1/2 cup white chocolate chips, and 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (or milk chocolate chips) and mix until just combined. The dough will be a bit sticky, like thick brownie batter.
- Scoop & Bake. Use a large cookie scoop (3 Tablespoon) to scoop 6 cookie dough balls onto a baking sheet. (I like to roll them smooth in my palms first for the prettiest presentation.) Bake cookies 9-11 minutes, or until the edges are set and the centers look just underdone. (I bake mine 9.5 minutes)
- Shape & Cool. When the cookies are done baking, use a large round cookie cutter to gently coax them into perfect circles, if needed (this is just for looks!), fill in any gaps on the surface with some extra chocolate chips, and cool 2-3 minutes on the baking sheet before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. Repeat until all the cookies are baked, alternating between cookie sheets each batch so you don't put cool dough on a hot baking sheet.
- Serve & Store. Enjoy cooled cookies right away and store leftover cookies in an airtight container at room temperature 2-3 days or freeze up to 2 months.
Notes
- Gluten-Free Flour. I highly recommend King Arthur Measure-For-Measure Gluten-Free Flour for taste texture here. If you use another 1:1 brand, make sure it contains xanthan gum, or the cookies won’t turn out properly. I do not recommend trying to substitute almond flour, coconut flour, or oat flour into this recipe.
- Cocoa Powder. Make sure to use regular, natural cocoa powder (like Hershey’s or Ghirardelli) rather than Dutch-processed cocoa for this recipe.
- Milk. The milk helps maintain the soft, chewy texture of the cookies and also helps with spread. If you find your cookies aren’t spreading properly (usually a sign of too much flour!), you can add a little more milk to the cookie dough, as needed.
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Find the recipe:
sweetsandthankyou.com/triple-chocolate-chip-cookies/
Delicious! Triple Chocolate! That feels like the right amount of chocolate to me! Plus these froze and thawed really well.